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Jason · #1 (**permalink**) 02-06-2005, 07:44 PM

Sorry, I've just got to comment on this:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/....ap/index.html

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Former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, getting the 2008 campaign cycle off to an early start, said Saturday that poverty "is one of the great moral issues of our time" and he pledged to help fight it.

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"It may seem like an impossible task to end poverty, but that's what skeptics have always said about the great struggles we have faced," he said. "If we can put a man on the moon, cure polio, and put a library on a little chip, then we can end poverty."

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"Don't tell me Democrats don't stand for anything," he said. "We do. We stand for work and opportunity. We know when something is right. And we know when something's wrong." "It is wrong when our neighbors work full time and still live in poverty."

Excuse me?? End poverty? Come on. Few work full-time and live in poverty. It's the mentally ill, the alcoholics, the druggies and the bums (for the most part) who live on the streets. Some just have bad luck. But, ending poverty in America is an American dream... literally. This is such political mumbo jumbo I can't stand it.